EP0351133A2 - Polarization insensitive optical communication device utilizing optical preamplification - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a polarization insensitive optical communication device utilizing preamplification and, more particularly, to such a device which uses polarization diversity to provide improved optical amplification.
- a message signal originates from a semiconductor light emitting source, travels over a length of optical fiber, and impinges the active region of a semiconductor photodetector.
- this relatively simple system is satisfactory.
- bit rates >4 Gb/s, for example
- the coupling efficiency of the system degrades significantly, with a sensitivity of only -26 dBm at 8 Gb/s transmission (with a 10 ⁇ 9 bit error rate (BER)).
- BER bit error rate
- Most high bit rate systems require a sensitivity of at least -32 dBm.
- a solution to this problem is to provide optical amplification at the input of the photodetector.
- preamplify the optical signal before it enters the photodiode preamplify the optical signal before it enters the photodiode.
- One method of achieving this preamplification is to transform the optical signal into an electrical form (with a conventional photodiode, for example), perform standard electrical amplification with any of the various methods well-known in the art, then reconvert the amplified electrical signal into an amplified optical signal at the input of the receiver photodiode.
- this is a workable solution.
- the need to perform these optical-electrical and electrical-optical conversions has been found to seriously degrade the quality of the message signal. Further, these systems often require rather sophisticated and expensive electrical components.
- a preferable solution is to perform optical amplification directly upon the message signal.
- conventional lasers may be used to perform this optical amplification.
- this is considered an improvement, there still exists a problem with these devices in that they are sensitive to the state of polarization of the incoming light signal.
- the TE and TM polarization states may exhibit a difference in gain of approximately 10 dB.
- Such a polarization dependence is undesirable for optical amplifiers utilized with installed optical fiber-based communication networks, where the polarization state of the message signal is at best unknown, and at worst varies as a function of time.
- FIG. 1 A simplified block diagram of the proposed polarization insensitive scheme of the present invention is illustrated in FIG. 1.
- an incoming optical signal I IN with an unknown polarization state is applied as an input to a polarization beam splitter 10 which functions to split signal I IN into two separate components having known polarizations.
- polarization beam splitter 10 functions to form a first component consisting of a TE polarized signal, denoted I TE , and a second component consisting of a TM polarized signal, denoted I TM .
- Polarization beam splitter 10 subsequently directs the first component I TE into a first section 12 of a polarization maintaining waveguide (polarization maintaining fiber, for example) and the second component I TM into a second section 14 of polarization maintaining waveguide.
- a polarization maintaining waveguide polarization maintaining fiber, for example
- the component propagating along waveguide section 12 will always be of a first, known state (TE) and similarly, the component propagating along waveguide section 14 will always be of the orthogonal state (TM).
- second component I TM is also amplified.
- second component I TM is redirected 90° by a mirror element 18 into a second optical amplifier 20.
- a laser amplifier will exhibit the most gain when the incoming signal is polarized along the TE axis.
- second laser amplifier 20 is oriented such that its TE axis is orthogonal to the direction of propagation of second component I TM and parallel to the electrical field vector of second component I TM .
- the gain G1 of first amplifier 16 be identical to the gain G2 of second amplifier 20. This requirement is relatively easy to accomplish when the amplifiers are simultaneously fabricated on the same substrate. When this is the case, the gains will be relatively identical and will track each other as a function of both temperature and time. Otherwise, the DC drive currents applied to lasers 16 and 20 may be individually adjusted to equalize their gain.
- first component I′ TE is directed along a waveguide 22 into a combiner element 26.
- second component I′ TM is directed along a waveguide 24 into combiner element 26.
- combiner 26 performs either an electrical recombination of components I′ TE and I′ TM so as to form an electrical voltage output signal V OUT , or an optical recombination of components I′ TE and I′ TM so as to form an optical output signal I OUT .
- An optical recombination is performed when the arrangement of FIG. 1 is utilized as an in-line optical amplifier (for either direct detection or coherent communication systems), as discussed in association with FIGs. 4 and 5.
- an electrical recombination is performed when the arrangement of FIG. 1 is utilized as the receiver portion of a direct detection communication system, as discussed in detail below in association with FIGs. 2 and 3.
- first optical amplifier 16 and second optical amplifier 20 may be degraded by reflections as discussed in the O'Mahony article mentioned above. Such reflections may be caused by imperfect performance of polarization beam splitter 10, polarization maintaining waveguides 12, 14, 22 and 24 or mirror element 18. Such reflections may also be caused by imperfect performance of optical components prior to polarization beam splitter 10, or subsequent to combiner 26 when optical recombination is employed.
- isolators may be employed. Faraday optical isolators are known in the art as exemplary devices capable of performing optical isolation.
- the isolators may be fabricated using either bulk optics or integrated optics techniques.
- the need for optical isolators, the number and specific design of isolators to be employed and the location of such isolators with respect to optical amplifiers 16,20 will be apparent to those skilled in the art.
- FIG. 2 An exemplary direct detection receiver 30 utilizing the arrangement of FIG. 1 is illustrated in FIG. 2.
- the input to receiver 30 is an optical signal I IN comprising an unknown (an usually varying with time) polarization state.
- This signal is first applied as an input to polarization beam splitter 10 which functions as described above to separate I IN into two components of known, orthogonal polarizations, I TE and I TM .
- First component I TE as shown in FIG. 2, follows along branch 1 and is coupled into a polarization maintaining waveguide, illustrated in this embodiment as a section of polarization maintaining fiber 120, where fiber 120 directs component I TE into first laser amplifier 16.
- signal component I TM is coupled into a section of polarization maintaining fiber 140 and subsequently applied as an input to second laser amplifier 20.
- signal component I TM is coupled into a section of polarization maintaining fiber 140 and subsequently applied as an input to second laser amplifier 20.
- various lensing arrangements may be used to couple polarization maintaining fibers 120,140 to amplifiers 16,20 and that polarization maintaining waveguides of other forms could be utilized, where in some embodiments a reflecting element, such as mirror 18 of FIG. 1, would be required to redirect one of the signal components into its associated laser amplifier.
- amplified signal I′ TE exiting laser amplifier 16 is subsequently applied as an input to a first optical bandpass filter 32.
- First filter 32 is chosen to comprise a sufficiently narrow bandwidth such that most of the spontaneous-spontaneous beat noise associated with the performance of laser amplifier 16 is removed from amplified signal I′ TE .
- a second optical bandpass filter 34 is positioned at the exit of second laser amplifier 20 so as to perform the same function on amplified signal I′ TM . It is to be understood that such filtering is not essential to the performance of receiver 30, but merely improves the quality of the final output signal.
- filtered signal I′ TE travels along a section of polarization maintaining fiber 36 and is applied as an input to a first PIN-FET receiver 38.
- filtered signal I TE ′ is coupled into the active region of a first PIN photodiode 40 which then transforms the optical signal into an equivalent voltage signal, denoted V1.
- Voltage signal V1 is subsequently applied as an input to a conventional FET amplifying section 42 which is designed to provide a predetermined amount of signal gain.
- Filtered signal I′ TM simultaneously propagates along a section of polarization maintaining fiber 44 and is applied as an input to a second PIN-FET receiver 46.
- Second receiver 46 comprises a PIN photodiode 48 which is responsive to filtered signal I′ TM to form an equivalent voltage representation denoted V2. Voltage signal V2 is then applied as an input to FET amplifier 50, identical in form and function to FET amplifier 42.
- FET amplifier 50 identical in form and function to FET amplifier 42.
- An exemplary matched amplifying section 42,50 will be described in detail in association with FIG. 3.
- First PIN-FET receiver 38 thus produces as an output a first amplified voltage signal V′1, which is representative of the TE polarized portion of the received light signal I IN .
- PIN-FET receiver 42 produces as an output a second amplified voltage signal V′2 which is representative of the TM polarized portion of the received light signal I IN .
- receiver output signals V′1 and V′2 are applied as inputs to an electrical summing network, which may simply be a resistor bridge 52 as illustrated in FIG. 2.
- direct detection receiver 30 may be formed with either discrete components, or integrated to form a monolithic structure. A combination of these techniques may also be applied to form a hybrid arrangement.
- a discrete component version is relatively simple to envision, utilizing bulk optics to form polarization beam splitter 10 and filters 32,24; discrete semiconductor devices for laser amplifiers 16,20 and photodiodes 40,48; polarization maintaining optical fiber for the optical signal paths; and integrated (or discrete) electronic components for FET amplifiers 42,50 and summing network 52.
- receiver 30 may be of monolithic form, utilizing an optical substrate with polarization beam splitter 10, the various polarization maintaining waveguides, and filters 32,34 directly formed in the substrate material. Lasers 16,20, as well as PIN-FET receivers 38,42 may then be fabricated on this substrate, where various techniques for forming integrated opto-electronic devices are becoming utilized in the art.
- Operation of receiver 30 may be understood by considering baseband signal and noise currents for a given received optical power P of input signal I IN .
- a predetermined fraction Kx P will be coupled into branch 1 associated with the amplification of signal I TE , where k is defined as the loss associated with a conventional polarization beam splitter and has been determined experimentally to be approximately equal to 0.71.
- the variable x is associated with the variation in the polarization of signal I IN ⁇ x ⁇ 1, i.e., fully TE polarized through mixed polarizations to fully TM polarized).
- the optical power coupled into branch 2 associated with the amplification of signal I TM will thus be k(1-x) P .
- the baseband signal current associated with I IN may then be written as where the subscripts 1 and 2 refer to branches 1 and 2, hv is the photon energy, e the electronic charge, ⁇ is the photodiode quantum efficiency, G is defined as the laser amplifier gain, and ⁇ in , ⁇ out are the laser amplifier input and output coupling efficiencies, respectively.
- the photodetectors employed in the direct detection receiver of the present invention are preferably matched devices. That is, the photodetectors exhibit like characteristics in terms of gain, efficiency, etc.
- the coupling arrangement i.e., lenses
- FIG. 3 An exemplary balanced receiver circuit 60 for converting the polarized light signals into the final receiver output V out is illustrated in FIG. 3.
- This particular arrangement is a three-stage FET amplifier which provides an overall transimpedance of approximately 1K ⁇ .
- first current signal I1 provided by PIN 40 is first filtered by a simple RC network and passed through a blocking diode 62.
- Current signal I1 is then applied as an input to a first amplifying stage 64, where stage 64 includes an FET 66 and associated resistive and capacitive elements. The specific values for these elements are chosen to provide the desired amount of voltage gain for first stage 64.
- first stage 64 is then applied as an input to a second amplifying stage 68, where a capacitor 70 is utilized to provide the AC coupling between first stage 64 and second stage 68.
- second stage 68 comprises an FET amplifying element, with various resistive and capacitive elements included to provide the predetermined amount of gain.
- the output of second stage 68 is then capacitively coupled via element 72 to a third amplifying stage 74.
- Third stage 74 also includes an FET amplifying element and the necessary resistive and capacitive elements.
- the output from third stage 76 is defined as the amplified voltage signal V′1 and is AC coupled by a capacitor 76 to an input of resistor bridging network 52, as described above in association with FIG. 2.
- Second current signal I2 provided by PIN photodiode 48 in response to light signal I′ TM , follows a similar path through receiver 60.
- second current signal I2 is first filtered and passed through a second blocking diode 78.
- the signal then passes through a series of three amplifying stages 80, 82 and 84, each identical in form and function to those associated with signal I1 as described above.
- the output from the last amplifying stage 84 is thus the amplified voltage signal V′2 which is coupled by a capacitor 86 to another input of resistor bridging network 52.
- bridging network 52 functions to electrically sum the signals V′1 and V′2 to form the output signal V OUT .
- FIG. 4 A block diagram of one such exemplary in-line optical amplifier 90 is illustrated in FIG. 4.
- the input to such an amplifier 90 is an optical signal I IN comprising an unknown (and usually varying with time) polarization state.
- Input signal I IN is applied as an input to polarization beam splitter 10 which then breaks signal I IN into a pair of orthogonal components of known TE and TM polarization, the components being thus defined as I TE and I TM , respectively.
- first component I TE is subsequently applied as an input to first laser amplifier 16, where maximum coupling efficiency is achieved by aligning the TE axis of laser amplifier 16 with the electric field vector of signal I TE .
- second component I TM is applied as an input to second amplifier 20 which is aligned such that its TE axis is orthogonal to the direction of propagation of second component I TM and parallel to the electric field vector of second component I TM so as to provide maximum gain.
- second polarization beam splitter 92 is shown as being aligned with first optical amplifier 16 so that amplified signal I′ TE may follow a direct path to the input of splitter 92. Therefore, amplified signal I′ TM from second optical amplifier 20 must be redirected by a second reflecting surface 94 towards the remaining input of splitter 92. It is to be understood that polarization beam splitter 92 may also be positioned in the path of second amplifier 20, with signal I′ TE being redirected towards an input to splitter 92.
- a pair of optical isolators 96 and 98 may be included with in-line amplifier 90 to prevent any reflected signal components (from various couplings, for example) from entering laser amplifiers 16 and 20, where these reflected signals would add destructively to the message signal, degrading the quality of output signal I OUT .
- Faraday optical isolators are known in the art as an exemplary device capable of performing optical isolation.
- an advantage of an in-line optical amplifier is that it may be used with a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) coherent (or direct) detection communications network so as to provide amplification of each signal being transmitted, regardless of its operating wavelength.
- WDM systems which utilize electrical amplification require separate amplifying units for each wavelength.
- a system utilizing the polarization insensitive in-line optical amplifier of the present invention will realize an approximate N-fold saving in amplifying components for an N signal system.
- FIG. 5 A simplified block diagram illustrating one such WDM system is illustrated in FIG. 5.
- the WDM system comprises a plurality of N transmitting units, denoted 1001 - 100 N , where each transmitter produces a separate message signal utilizing an assigned wavelength ⁇ 1 - ⁇ N .
- These signals then propagate over a plurality of N optical fibers 1021 - 102 N and are coupled to the input of polarization insensitive in-line optical amplifier 90, configured as illustrated in FIG. 4.
- the output from amplifier 90 will thus contain amplified version of any signal being transmitted at wavelengths ⁇ 1 - ⁇ N .
- This output subsequently propagates along a plurality of optical fibers 1041 - 104 N which are coupled, respectively, to the inputs of a plurality of coherent receivers 1061 - 106 N .
- Associated with each receiver 1061 - 106 N is a local oscillator 1081 - 108 N , each local oscillator tuned to the specific wavelength of its receiver so as to achieve coherent detection of the correct message signal.
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- The present invention relates to a polarization insensitive optical communication device utilizing preamplification and, more particularly, to such a device which uses polarization diversity to provide improved optical amplification.
- In a conventional direct detection optical communication scheme, a message signal originates from a semiconductor light emitting source, travels over a length of optical fiber, and impinges the active region of a semiconductor photodetector. For many applications, this relatively simple system is satisfactory. However, at high bit rates (>4 Gb/s, for example), the coupling efficiency of the system degrades significantly, with a sensitivity of only -26 dBm at 8 Gb/s transmission (with a 10⁻⁹ bit error rate (BER)). Most high bit rate systems require a sensitivity of at least -32 dBm. A solution to this problem is to provide optical amplification at the input of the photodetector. That is, preamplify the optical signal before it enters the photodiode. One method of achieving this preamplification is to transform the optical signal into an electrical form (with a conventional photodiode, for example), perform standard electrical amplification with any of the various methods well-known in the art, then reconvert the amplified electrical signal into an amplified optical signal at the input of the receiver photodiode. In theory, this is a workable solution. In practice, however, the need to perform these optical-electrical and electrical-optical conversions has been found to seriously degrade the quality of the message signal. Further, these systems often require rather sophisticated and expensive electrical components.
- A preferable solution is to perform optical amplification directly upon the message signal. As discussed in the article "Wideband 1.5 µm Optical Receiver Using Traveling-Wave Laser Amplifier", by M. J. O'Mahony et al. appearing in Electron Letters, No. 22, 1986 at pp. 1238-9, conventional lasers may be used to perform this optical amplification. Although this is considered an improvement, there still exists a problem with these devices in that they are sensitive to the state of polarization of the incoming light signal. In particular, due to the difference in confinement factors in the laser structure, the TE and TM polarization states may exhibit a difference in gain of approximately 10 dB. Such a polarization dependence is undesirable for optical amplifiers utilized with installed optical fiber-based communication networks, where the polarization state of the message signal is at best unknown, and at worst varies as a function of time.
- Thus, a need remains in the prior art for achieving optical amplification which is truly polarization insensitive.
- Referring now to the drawings, where like numerals represent like parts in several views:
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an exemplary polarization insensitive arrangement of the present invention;
- FIG. 2 illustrates a polarization insensitive direct detection receiver utilizing the exemplary arrangement of FIG. 1;
- FIG. 3 illustrates an exemplary receiver configuration for use in the direct detection scheme of FIG. 2;
- FIG. 4 illustrates an exemplary in-line optical amplifier utilizing the arrangement of FIG. 1; and
- FIG. 5 illustrates a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) coherent communication scheme utilizing the in-line optical amplifier of FIG. 4.
- A simplified block diagram of the proposed polarization insensitive scheme of the present invention is illustrated in FIG. 1. As shown, an incoming optical signal IIN with an unknown polarization state is applied as an input to a
polarization beam splitter 10 which functions to split signal IIN into two separate components having known polarizations. In particular, polarization beam splitter 10 functions to form a first component consisting of a TE polarized signal, denoted ITE, and a second component consisting of a TM polarized signal, denoted ITM .Polarization beam splitter 10 subsequently directs the first component ITE into afirst section 12 of a polarization maintaining waveguide (polarization maintaining fiber, for example) and the second component ITM into asecond section 14 of polarization maintaining waveguide. Thus, regardless of the state of polarization of signal IIN, the component propagating alongwaveguide section 12 will always be of a first, known state (TE) and similarly, the component propagating alongwaveguide section 14 will always be of the orthogonal state (TM). - First signal component ITE is subsequently applied as an input to a first
optical amplifier 16,optical amplifier 16 being a laser amplifier of the type described in the O'Mahony et al. article mentioned above. It has been observed that the typical semiconductor laser which is utilized as a laser amplifier, a CSBH laser, for example, will exhibit a gain of approximately 25 dB when the incoming signal is polarized in the TE mode, as compared with a lesser gain of approximately 15,22 dB with a TM polarized incoming signal. Therefore, to obtain the maximum gain fromfirst laser amplifier 16,amplifier 16 is oriented such that its TE axis is aligned with signal component ITE. As illustrated in FIG. 1, with this alignment, firstoptical amplifier 16 is defined as exhibiting a gain of G₁ such that the output from theoptical amplifier 16 is G₁ *ITE = I′TE. - In a similar fashion, second component ITM is also amplified. Referring to the particular arrangement of FIG. 1, second component ITM is redirected 90° by a
mirror element 18 into a secondoptical amplifier 20. As mentioned above, a laser amplifier will exhibit the most gain when the incoming signal is polarized along the TE axis. Thus,second laser amplifier 20 is oriented such that its TE axis is orthogonal to the direction of propagation of second component ITM and parallel to the electrical field vector of second component ITM. As illustrated in FIG. 1, secondoptical amplifier 20 exhibits a gain factor G₂ such that the output from secondoptical amplifier 20 is defined as G₂ *ITM = I′TM. As will be discussed in detail hereinafter in association with FIG. 2, it is preferred that the gain G₁ offirst amplifier 16 be identical to the gain G₂ ofsecond amplifier 20. This requirement is relatively easy to accomplish when the amplifiers are simultaneously fabricated on the same substrate. When this is the case, the gains will be relatively identical and will track each other as a function of both temperature and time. Otherwise, the DC drive currents applied tolasers - Subsequent to the amplification, first component I′TE is directed along a
waveguide 22 into acombiner element 26. Similarly, second component I′TM is directed along awaveguide 24 into combinerelement 26. As will be described in detail hereafter, combiner 26 performs either an electrical recombination of components I′TE and I′TM so as to form an electrical voltage output signal VOUT, or an optical recombination of components I′TE and I′TM so as to form an optical output signal IOUT. An optical recombination is performed when the arrangement of FIG. 1 is utilized as an in-line optical amplifier (for either direct detection or coherent communication systems), as discussed in association with FIGs. 4 and 5. Alternatively, an electrical recombination is performed when the arrangement of FIG. 1 is utilized as the receiver portion of a direct detection communication system, as discussed in detail below in association with FIGs. 2 and 3. - It is to be noted that for the polarization insensitive arrangement of FIG. 1, the performance of first
optical amplifier 16 and secondoptical amplifier 20 may be degraded by reflections as discussed in the O'Mahony article mentioned above. Such reflections may be caused by imperfect performance ofpolarization beam splitter 10,polarization maintaining waveguides mirror element 18. Such reflections may also be caused by imperfect performance of optical components prior topolarization beam splitter 10, or subsequent to combiner 26 when optical recombination is employed. To optimize the performance ofoptical amplifiers optical amplifiers - An exemplary
direct detection receiver 30 utilizing the arrangement of FIG. 1 is illustrated in FIG. 2. As previously described, the input toreceiver 30 is an optical signal IIN comprising an unknown (an usually varying with time) polarization state. This signal is first applied as an input topolarization beam splitter 10 which functions as described above to separate IIN into two components of known, orthogonal polarizations, ITE and ITM. First component ITE, as shown in FIG. 2, follows along branch 1 and is coupled into a polarization maintaining waveguide, illustrated in this embodiment as a section ofpolarization maintaining fiber 120, wherefiber 120 directs component ITE intofirst laser amplifier 16. Similarly, signal component ITM, following along branch 2, is coupled into a section ofpolarization maintaining fiber 140 and subsequently applied as an input tosecond laser amplifier 20. It is to be understood that various lensing arrangements may be used to couple polarization maintaining fibers 120,140 toamplifiers mirror 18 of FIG. 1, would be required to redirect one of the signal components into its associated laser amplifier. - Devices currently utilized as laser amplifiers are known to exhibit spontaneous-spontaneous beat noise which seriously degrades the quality of the amplified output signal. To solve this problem, bandpass filters may be placed at the exit of such amplifiers to minimize this noise factor. Thus, referring to FIG. 2, amplified signal I′TE exiting
laser amplifier 16 is subsequently applied as an input to a firstoptical bandpass filter 32.First filter 32 is chosen to comprise a sufficiently narrow bandwidth such that most of the spontaneous-spontaneous beat noise associated with the performance oflaser amplifier 16 is removed from amplified signal I′TE. A secondoptical bandpass filter 34 is positioned at the exit ofsecond laser amplifier 20 so as to perform the same function on amplified signal I′TM. It is to be understood that such filtering is not essential to the performance ofreceiver 30, but merely improves the quality of the final output signal. - Following the filtering operation, the final receiver detection operation is performed. As shown in FIG. 2, filtered signal I′TE travels along a section of
polarization maintaining fiber 36 and is applied as an input to a first PIN-FET receiver 38. In particular, filtered signal ITE′ is coupled into the active region of afirst PIN photodiode 40 which then transforms the optical signal into an equivalent voltage signal, denoted V₁. Voltage signal V₁ is subsequently applied as an input to a conventionalFET amplifying section 42 which is designed to provide a predetermined amount of signal gain. Filtered signal I′TM simultaneously propagates along a section ofpolarization maintaining fiber 44 and is applied as an input to a second PIN-FET receiver 46.Second receiver 46 comprises aPIN photodiode 48 which is responsive to filtered signal I′TM to form an equivalent voltage representation denoted V₂. Voltage signal V₂ is then applied as an input toFET amplifier 50, identical in form and function toFET amplifier 42. An exemplary matched amplifyingsection - First PIN-
FET receiver 38 thus produces as an output a first amplified voltage signal V′₁, which is representative of the TE polarized portion of the received light signal IIN. Likewise, PIN-FET receiver 42 produces as an output a second amplified voltage signal V′₂ which is representative of the TM polarized portion of the received light signal IIN. In order to form a final voltage output signal VOUT, receiver output signals V′₁ and V′₂ are applied as inputs to an electrical summing network, which may simply be aresistor bridge 52 as illustrated in FIG. 2. - It is to be understood that
direct detection receiver 30 may be formed with either discrete components, or integrated to form a monolithic structure. A combination of these techniques may also be applied to form a hybrid arrangement. A discrete component version is relatively simple to envision, utilizing bulk optics to formpolarization beam splitter 10 and filters 32,24; discrete semiconductor devices forlaser amplifiers photodiodes FET amplifiers network 52. Alternatively,receiver 30 may be of monolithic form, utilizing an optical substrate withpolarization beam splitter 10, the various polarization maintaining waveguides, and filters 32,34 directly formed in the substrate material.Lasers FET receivers - Operation of
receiver 30 may be understood by considering baseband signal and noise currents for a given received optical powerP of input signal IIN. Of this received power, a predetermined fraction KxP will be coupled into branch 1 associated with the amplification of signal ITE, where k is defined as the loss associated with a conventional polarization beam splitter and has been determined experimentally to be approximately equal to 0.71. The variable x is associated with the variation in the polarization of signal IIN<x<1, i.e., fully TE polarized through mixed polarizations to fully TM polarized). The optical power coupled into branch 2 associated with the amplification of signal ITM will thus be k(1-x)P . The baseband signal current associated with IIN may then be written as - As stated above, the photodetectors employed in the direct detection receiver of the present invention are preferably matched devices. That is, the photodetectors exhibit like characteristics in terms of gain, efficiency, etc. Thus, the photodiode quantum efficiency of the detectors will be essentially identical and equation (1) may be simplified by defining η₁ = η₂ = η. Therefore, equation (1) may be rewritten in the following form:
amplifiers receiver 30 is formed so that η₁outG₁ = η₂outG₂ = ηoutG, isignal will be independent of polarization, as shown below: - An exemplary
balanced receiver circuit 60 for converting the polarized light signals into the final receiver output Vout is illustrated in FIG. 3. This particular arrangement is a three-stage FET amplifier which provides an overall transimpedance of approximately 1KΩ. Referring to FIG. 3, first current signal I₁ provided byPIN 40 is first filtered by a simple RC network and passed through a blocking diode 62. Current signal I₁ is then applied as an input to afirst amplifying stage 64, wherestage 64 includes an FET 66 and associated resistive and capacitive elements. The specific values for these elements are chosen to provide the desired amount of voltage gain forfirst stage 64. The output fromfirst stage 64 is then applied as an input to asecond amplifying stage 68, where a capacitor 70 is utilized to provide the AC coupling betweenfirst stage 64 andsecond stage 68. As withfirst stage 64,second stage 68 comprises an FET amplifying element, with various resistive and capacitive elements included to provide the predetermined amount of gain. The output ofsecond stage 68 is then capacitively coupled via element 72 to a third amplifying stage 74. Third stage 74 also includes an FET amplifying element and the necessary resistive and capacitive elements. The output fromthird stage 76 is defined as the amplified voltage signal V′₁ and is AC coupled by acapacitor 76 to an input ofresistor bridging network 52, as described above in association with FIG. 2. - Second current signal I₂, provided by
PIN photodiode 48 in response to light signal I′TM, follows a similar path throughreceiver 60. In particular, second current signal I₂ is first filtered and passed through asecond blocking diode 78. The signal then passes through a series of three amplifyingstages last amplifying stage 84 is thus the amplified voltage signal V′₂ which is coupled by acapacitor 86 to another input ofresistor bridging network 52. As described above, bridgingnetwork 52 functions to electrically sum the signals V′₁ and V′₂ to form the output signal VOUT. - As mentioned above, the polarization insensitive optical amplification technique of the present invention may also be utilized to form an in-line optical amplifier. A block diagram of one such exemplary in-line
optical amplifier 90 is illustrated in FIG. 4. As discussed above, the input to such anamplifier 90 is an optical signal IIN comprising an unknown (and usually varying with time) polarization state. Input signal IIN is applied as an input topolarization beam splitter 10 which then breaks signal IIN into a pair of orthogonal components of known TE and TM polarization, the components being thus defined as ITE and ITM, respectively. As discussed in detail in association with FIG. 1, first component ITE is subsequently applied as an input tofirst laser amplifier 16, where maximum coupling efficiency is achieved by aligning the TE axis oflaser amplifier 16 with the electric field vector of signal ITE. Similarly, second component ITM is applied as an input tosecond amplifier 20 which is aligned such that its TE axis is orthogonal to the direction of propagation of second component ITM and parallel to the electric field vector of second component ITM so as to provide maximum gain. - The output signals from first and
second laser amplifiers polarization beam splitter 92 which is disposed to receive the separate signals I′TE, I′TM and recombine them to form the optical output signal IOUT. In the particular arrangement illustrated in FIG. 4, secondpolarization beam splitter 92 is shown as being aligned with firstoptical amplifier 16 so that amplified signal I′TE may follow a direct path to the input ofsplitter 92. Therefore, amplified signal I′TM from secondoptical amplifier 20 must be redirected by a second reflectingsurface 94 towards the remaining input ofsplitter 92. It is to be understood thatpolarization beam splitter 92 may also be positioned in the path ofsecond amplifier 20, with signal I′TE being redirected towards an input tosplitter 92. - A pair of
optical isolators line amplifier 90 to prevent any reflected signal components (from various couplings, for example) from enteringlaser amplifiers - As discussed above, an advantage of an in-line optical amplifier is that it may be used with a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) coherent (or direct) detection communications network so as to provide amplification of each signal being transmitted, regardless of its operating wavelength. In contrast, WDM systems which utilize electrical amplification require separate amplifying units for each wavelength. Thus, a system utilizing the polarization insensitive in-line optical amplifier of the present invention will realize an approximate N-fold saving in amplifying components for an N signal system. A simplified block diagram illustrating one such WDM system is illustrated in FIG. 5. As shown, the WDM system comprises a plurality of N transmitting units, denoted 100₁ - 100N, where each transmitter produces a separate message signal utilizing an assigned wavelength λ₁ - λN. These signals then propagate over a plurality of N optical fibers 102₁ - 102N and are coupled to the input of polarization insensitive in-line
optical amplifier 90, configured as illustrated in FIG. 4. The output fromamplifier 90 will thus contain amplified version of any signal being transmitted at wavelengths λ₁ - λN. This output subsequently propagates along a plurality of optical fibers 104₁ - 104N which are coupled, respectively, to the inputs of a plurality of coherent receivers 106₁ - 106N. Associated with each receiver 106₁ - 106N is a local oscillator 108₁ - 108N, each local oscillator tuned to the specific wavelength of its receiver so as to achieve coherent detection of the correct message signal.
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CHARACTERIZED IN THAT the communication device is polarization insensitive and comprises
a polarization beam splitter (e.g., 10) responsive to the input optical signal (e.g., IIN) for directing a first component (e.g., ITE) of said input signal, of a first defined polarization state, along a first signal path (e.g., 12) and directing a second, orthogonal component (e.g., ITM) of a second defined polarization state, along a second signal path (e.g., 14);
a first optical amplifier (e.g., 16) disposed in the first signal path and responsive to the first component for generating as an output an amplified version thereof, the first optical amplifier aligned with respect to the first polarization state of said first component so as to provide maximum amplification;
a second optical amplifier (e.g., 20) disposed in the second signal path and responsive to the second component for generating as an output an amplified version thereof, the second optical aligned with respect to the second polarization state of said second component so as to provide maximum amplification; and
means (e.g., 26) responsive to the amplified output signals generated by the first and second optical amplifiers for combining the amplified first and second orthogonal components to provide as the output of said communication device an amplified version of the optical input signal.
a first optical isolator disposed in the signal path in front of the polarization beam splitter; and
a second optical isolator disposed in the signal path after the combining means, said first and second optical isolators for preventing reflected optical signals from entering the first and second optical amplifiers.
the first component of the optical input signal is of the TE polarization state and the TE axis of the first laser amplifier is aligned in the direction of polarization of said first component; and
the second component of said optical input signal is of the TM polarization state and the TE axis of the second laser amplified is aligned in the direction of polarization of said second component.
a polarization beam combiner (e.g., 92) responsive to both the first and second amplified components generated by the first and second optical amplifiers, respectively, said polarization beam combiner for recombining said amplified components and providing as an output the amplified optical signal.
a first optical isolator (e.g., 96) disposed in the signal path in front of the polarization beam splitter; and
a second optical isolator (e.g., 98) disposed in the signal path after the polarization beam combiner, said first and second optical isolators for preventing reflected optical signals from entering the first and second optical amplifiers.
a first photodetector (e.g., 40) responsive to the first amplified optical component for converting said first amplified optical component to an electrical representation thereof;
a first electrical receiver (e.g., 42) responsive to the electrical representation provided by said first photodetector for producing a first voltage output signal having a predetermined gain;
a second photodetector (e.g., 48) reponsive to the second amplified optical component for converting said second amplified optical component to an electrical representation thereof;
a second electrical receiver (e.g., 50) responsive to the electrical representation provided by said second photodetector for producing as an output a second voltage signal having a predetermined gain; and
electrical summing means (e.g., 52) responsive to said first and second voltage signals for adding said signals and providing as an output the amplified voltage signal.
a first optical filter (e.g., 32) disposed between the first optical amplifier and the first photodetector for removing unwanted noise components from the first amplified optical component; and
a second optical filter (e.g., 34) disposed between the second optical amplifier and the second photodetector for removing unwanted noise components form the second amplified optical component.
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